Improvement in cotton-scrapers



L. C. GILLASPIE, Sr.

COTTON-SCRAPER.

No.18Z,915. Patented. Oct. 3. 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

LEROY O. GILLASPIE, SR, OF BROWNSVILLE, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-SCRAPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 82,915, dated October3, 1876 application filed December 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEROY C. GILLAsPIE, Sr.,of Brownsville, in the county of Haywood and State of Tennessee, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn and CottonScrapers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which formpart of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a corn and cotton scraper, as will be hereinafter more fully setforth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to clescribe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a rear view of my invention.

A represents a plow-beam with foot B and handles 0 O. D is the scraper,made in the usual diamond form and fastened to the foot B. The lower endof the foot B is narrowed down, as shown at at, exactly where it comesin contact with the bed, and thereby puts the scraper immediately underthe influence of the handles.

By raising the handles or lowering them the scraper can be made to rundeep or shallow at pleasure, just as a turning-plow, and by hearing thehandles a little to the right more angle is given to thescraper-wingconsequently the scraper is made to run to the left, whichis nearer to the drill of the cotton or corn; and a pressure of thehandle to the opposite direction guides it from the drill, because amotion of the handles to the left throws ofl' angle of the wing-consequently the scraper naturally inclines to the right.

The scraper-wing D is fastened to the foot by means ofa bolt, 1), whichpasses through the foot and wing. This bolt is round where it passesthrough the foot and square in the wing, so that it can be turned at anyangle desired, and the head of the bolt in the wing will still keep itssmooth position, because the bolt turns in the foot, and not in theWing. Another bolt, d, passes through the wing for fastening the braceor angle regulator G to the under side thereof. This brace acts not onlyas a regulator of the angle of the wing, but also as a support for thewing. This brace or angle regulator has a slot in the upper end, whichworks on a bolt, 0, passing through the foot, so that when the properangle of the wing for any sized bed is ascertained by means of said boltand not 6, the proper angle may be secured and retained.

The holes in the wing D for the two bolts b d are at such points thatwhen the wing is reversed the bolts may be interchanged.

The top and bottom edges of the scraper are beveled to an edge, so thatwhen one edge wears and becomes ill-shaped it may be reversed, and theother edge used.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the plow-foot B, having its lower end narrowed, asshown at a, the scraper-wing D connected thereto by the pivot-bolt b,and the slotted angle-regulator Gr, connected to the wing and to theplow-foot, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

L. O. GILLASPIE, SR.

Witnesses:

FRANK M. TAYLOR, RoBT. S. THOMAS.

